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by elfexec 7y ago
It's not about oil necessarily. It's about energy source or more generally - a valuable resource. If lithium batteries become the new "oil", then lithium rich countries will become targets and oil countries will be ignor
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by elfexec 7y ago
Not sure I agree. One of the founding fathers of computer science ( von Neumann ) calculated the most optimal detonation point for hiroshima to generate the greatest destruction and the widest spread of radiation. Computer science was invol
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> If you did harm then being motivated by your morality or religion doesn't justify what you did. All morality results in harm. Good does harm to evil - that's the point. Now what is good and what is evil? It's different f
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by elfexec 7y ago
It more likely has to do with NORAD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Aerospace_Defen...
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I'm surprised that kmart is still around. And staples too, but to a lesser degree.
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Basically, SoftBank has taken the money of some very unsavory characters (people who are literally willing to cut your body into little pieces) promising big gain So has pretty much every major company and every major industry around t
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by elfexec 7y ago
In this comment thread. dman 1 day ago [-] Any examples of how a retail investor would play this? reply xwowsersx 1 day ago [-] Buy TSN, SAFM, HRL...but it's probably too late at this point. We were placing bets on this 18 months ago.
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Once the users realised they had little sway in getting a post to the front page they left. The only reason they left was because there was an alternative - reddit. If reddit wasn't around, digg would have a captive audience and t
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> If you’re going to argue that’s exclusively the realm of religion, then what were nietzche and Plato and Sartre doing? I'm arguing that certainty is the realm of religion. "Religion provides certainty. Philosophy is more hone
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Funny to see this finally making mainstream news. So disappointing to see the top comment is an outright lie. This story has been covered by the mainstream media since 2018. What's even more worrying is this guy is giving investme
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by elfexec 7y ago
I wouldn't take investment advice from strangers on the internet. Especially one so uninformed to claim "Funny to see this finally making mainstream news" or someone so shady that he'd lie on HN to get people interested
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by elfexec 7y ago
1. I'll go against the herd and say China won't collapse but continue to grow and in 2030 China will be the largest economy in nominal GDP terms by a significant margin. Also, Sino-American trade will be at its highest ever in 203
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by elfexec 7y ago
There's also the story of Joseph and the Famine in the bible - 7 years of bountiful harvests followed by 7 years of famine brought on by a severe drought.
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by elfexec 7y ago
My favorite from 2010 : "President-Elect Graham to Appoint Sam Altman to Cabinet"... Not too far off. I checked and nobody predicted a Trump presidency in 2010. So no time travelers amongst us sadly.
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by elfexec 7y ago
That seems like overkill. Why not just give them a barebones linux box with tty only. No X server, no windows manager, just a cursor blinking at you, daring you to do something. As a christmas present you could install lynx for them.
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by elfexec 7y ago
> What we're experiencing is a crisis of meaning. Philosophy is a shield against meaninglessness and conceptual confusion. This is simply not true. What you are describing is religion. Outside of the realm of logic, much of philosop
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by elfexec 7y ago
That's impressive. Even more impressive is that the yearly death toll has been 10 or below since around 2005. Is it because people/teens are now staying indoors more due to the internet or is it due to a policy change or is it tec
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by elfexec 7y ago
0. Learn to break large and complex problems into smaller and simpler problems I agree with the seven, but I think it's missing one of the most important ways programmers think.
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As opposed to what we are doing to Assange? Or carrying out a coup against a democratically elected president in Bolivia ( Yes, I know he legally ran for a 4th time, but then so did angela merkel...). Do you know the largest "worker&qu
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by elfexec 7y ago
> I never said that Britain was justified in any way in the Opium Wars, far from it. I never said you did. My comment specifically debunked your assertions about "britain's superior economy", etc. > But that's irre
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by elfexec 7y ago
> The first opium wars, at the start of the century of humiliation, began in 1839. Industrialization began in the 1780s. We can argue about when industrialization began til the cows come home, but the benefits of industrialization weren&
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by elfexec 7y ago
> I don't feel this is an issue until you can't spin up your own website/app/platform and allow whatever speech you want. I mostly agree with you on "website/app". As for the platform, it really depends
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by elfexec 7y ago
If I'm understanding this correctly, something that was created in 1924 was still copyright protected until 2020? Nearly 100 years of copyright - most of it under the family of the creator who died in 1937? How can it be legal? At what
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by elfexec 7y ago
No the study is saying for moderately attractive women, the higher the status, the less attractive they become for men. "experiments revealed that higher (vs. lower) status decreased men's attraction to moderately-attractive women
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> That's getting the causality backwards. Western colonialism didn't reduce China and India to insignificant economies; their insignificance is what enabled Western powers to colonize them so easily. This is one of the most out
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by elfexec 7y ago
> "Neoliberal" refers to Clinton-style ("third way") liberal politicians. I don't know who you're using it to refer to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism > You forgot to in
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by elfexec 7y ago
> A lot of the article seems to be based on liberal ideals Not liberal ideals. Globalist neoliberal ideals. > which include a less prominent America, the promotion of Veganism, and embracing the fall of the West. These aren't li
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by elfexec 7y ago
> This looks like an algorithm that could be useful if programmed rather than carried around in one's head. It is. I remember this being one of my programming assignments in college. Another one is determining whether a year is a le
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by elfexec 7y ago
> All school children since the mid-1990s have been indoctrinated from birth with a Chinese Communist Party's highly-exaggerated historical narrative called the "century of humiliation" I suggest reading about the chinese
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Bubbles happen when everyone in the market is stupid. No. Bubbles happen when interest rates are low or via other mechanisms ( QE, etc ) excess capital is created. > Stupidly believe nothing could go wrong. No. This is just standard

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